FROM THE NEWS-LEDGER — MARCH 7, 2012 – For the first time in school history, RCHS will be represented at the California State High School Speech Association Championships. Jacob Andrus, Team Captain, and Beverly Harris, a sophomore, will be competing against the top 56 teams in California in the Duo Interpretation event. Their performance of [...]

NEWS-LEDGER — MARCH 7, 2012 – ONLINE UPDATE: The Raiders lost their match on March 7 against Pleasant Valley in a 49-47 finish. That has ended the RCHS season. But the team’s regular-season record plus wins in the first two games of the playoffs marked the best girls’ basketball season in the history of River [...]

NEWS-LEDGER ONLINE — MARCH 9, 2012 – River City High High announced it has just hired Steve DaPrato of West Sacramento as new head football coach. DaPrato has coached at the high school and collegiate level, including Chabot College. He will fill the post left vacant by former coach Arturo Bustamante, who is facing legal [...]

FROM THE NEWS-LEDGER — MARCH 7, 2012 – District Attorney Jeff Reisig announced that on February 27, a Yolo County jury convicted three members of the Norteno street gang of robbery, battery, assault, witness intimidation and street gang activity for an attack on three people in a Lowe’s parking lot in West Sacramento on April [...]

From the News-Ledger — March 7, 2012 – The Port of West Sacramento announced yesterday it had received a $960,000 grant from the Federal Railroad Administration for construction of a rail loop track that will consolidate switching and looping operations and reduce conflicts between trains and surface street traffic. _________________________ Safeway has provided a [...]

FROM THE NEWS-LEDGER — MARCH 7, 2012 – By Steve Marschke News-Ledger Editor School bus rides will probably be a thing of the past for most local elementary and middle school-grade kids next year. But the school board at the Washington Unified School District is considering a planned cut to bus service in the afternoon [...]

NEWS-LEDGER ONLINE — MARCH 7, 2012 – The “Learning Ladder” preschool and child care center will open at the West Sacramento Community Center, celebrating with a ribbon cutting at 1:30 p.m. this Saturday. The ribbon-cutting will precede the community center’s one-year “birthday party” beginning at 2 p.m. Mayor Christopher Cabaldon and Mayor Pro Tem Oscar [...]